City Osteopathy

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About City Osteopathy

Our two clinics offer a large group of experienced osteopaths who are passionate about their occupation and their responsibilities to the patient. Our osteopath’s various interests and skills range from doing structural, cranial and biodynamic osteopathy, dry needling, acupuncture, sports rehab, lecturing, ergonomic workplace assessments and more.

We are proud of our diversity as a group, and our ability to get quick and effective results for our patients. Our two city clinics are lead by our principal Osteopaths, Dr. Shane Heslop and Dr. Rohan Armstrong, with nearly 20 years experience each.

City Osteopathy aims to provide its patients with the best, safest and most effective treatment possible. We undertake to educate our patients so they may understand their condition, and empower them via teaching self help techniques such as the latest in strengthening, stretching, dietary advice and rehabilitation programs. We aim to be completely ethical in all of our dealings with you.

We are experts on advising you in many areas such as workplace ergonomics, fitness & rehab programs, footwear & orthotics, exercise and stabilisation therapy, back care and more. We have a wide referral network of sports doctors, & other complementary therapies and exercise experts.

Our City West clinic in Bourke St also provides an excellent massage therapist, Suzanna Vukovic, who we highly recommend as an adjunct to your osteopathic treatment.

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Our Experience

We are a group of very experienced osteopaths. Our interests range from typical spinal and sports injuries, to visceral issues and cranial osteopathy for infants. We have experience with elite level athletes and performers and with lecturing over many years in the undergraduate osteopathic course at RMIT and VUT.

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Our Practitioners

Shane Heslop - Osteopath

Qualified from RMIT in 1992, he has been partner of a large multi -disciplinary clinic in Blackburn since then. He opened City Osteopathy in 2002. Since then the clinics have expanded rapidly and now consist of eight Osteopaths and Massage Therapist.

Shane has been a sessional tutor in the RMIT Osteopathic program from 1996-99 and since 1999 has lectured technique to third year students. He has also held various roles in the Australian Osteopathic Association.

He has an interest in helping and improving the health of patients who are suffering from long term, chronic pain. This can include chronic spinal pain related to trauma, arthritis, disc pain and headaches such as migraine and tension headaches. His treatments try to encompass a ‘wholistic’ approach, taking into consideration life style factors, medication, other health issues (such as IBS, chronic fatigue etc), fitness and age.

Shane will use a wide range of gentle osteopathic techniques in your treatment including cranial osteopathy, a gentle form of Osteopathy that can be very effective with babies and the elderly.

Shane has lived in the inner city for 15 years and loves a good coffee, has a keen interest in golf and the Italian language.

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Rohan Armstrong - Osteopath

Rohan Armstrong graduated in 1992 and has been working in private practice in Melbourne and overseas for over 19 years. In 1997 he travelled to the UK where he worked for 2 years before spending a year with a touring dance company in the US as their personal Osteopath.

Upon returning to Australia he resumed practise and continued to develop his strong interest working with many sporting groups and organisations including elite level athletes of many sports, professional dancers & performance artists.

Through both his own experience playing sport, and as a competitive sprinter combined with years in practise, Rohan has a wide range of experience and skills with respect to sports injury & fitness, performance based activity, rehabilitation and conditioning. His other areas of interest include ergonomics in the workplace, primal living as well as helping you make better lifestyle choices for better health & wellbeing.

In his spare time Rohan enjoys fitness training, running, mountain biking, hiking, scuba diving and is a volunteer lifesaver with St.Kilda Life Saving Club.

Meet the rest of our experienced team >>

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Why Osteopathy Works

Osteopaths commonly treat pain and dysfunction of the spine and body, achieving their great results via a hands on holistic approach. The cause of pain is sought after and treated accordingly, rather than treating the site of symptoms.

Osteopathy is an extremely effective form of manual medicine that aims to restore the body’s musculoskeletal system to a state of balance. Osteopaths commonly treat pain and dysfunction of the spine and body, achieving their great results via a hands on holistic approach. The cause of pain is sought after and treated accordingly, rather than treating the site of symptoms. This is what sets Osteopathy apart.

Osteopathic treatment is generally very gentle, and uses a wide range of techniques that are considered extremely safe. These include gentle joint mobilisation, spinal manipulation, trigger point treatment, myofascial stretching and soft tissue massage.

Current university training is five years full time that includes undergraduate and then masters qualifications.

The World Health Organisation recognises the Osteopathic concept of somatic dysfunction (soma=body) as scientifically proven. Osteopathy is widely recognised worldwide as one of the most scientifically proven and effective ‘complementary’ therapies.

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The types of problems Osteopaths treat include;

• Back, neck and shoulder pain
• Nerve impingement pain like sciatica
• Headaches and migraine
• Sports-related injuries such as tendonitis, rotator cuff, muscle strains
• Joint injuries and arthritis
• Muscular strains and pain
• Pain associated with pregnancy
• Work-related and overuse injuries
• Postural and mobility problems

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2 Clinic Locations in the Melbourne CBD

CITY WEST Level 11, Suite 1104, 488 Bourke St, Melbourne Opposite RACV between William and Queen 03 9663 5450 Public Transport: 500m walk from Southern Cross Station, Flagstaff Station or Flinders Street Station.

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CITY SQUARE Suite 7 - Level 5 55 Swanston Street, Melbourne Corner of Flinders Lane and Swanston Street 03 9663 5450 Parking: Westin Hotel ($2.50 per half hour) provides easy parking opposite City Osteopathy. Entrance to Westin Hotel parking via Flinders Lane. Public Transport: 100m walk from Flinders St Station.